Streptococcus equi

Streptococcus equi is a Gram-positive bacterium, and is the causative agent of Strangles, the most common
infectious disease of horses. The symptoms are severe, complications are common and, at present, there is no effective
treatment or vaccine for the disease.

Data Downloads

The Sanger Institute has completed the sequencing of and recently published the 2.25 Mb genome of S. equi
strain 4047 in collaboration with Prof. Mike Kehoe, of the School of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, University of
Newcastle, Duncan Maskell of the Centre for Veterinary Science, Dept. of Clinical Veterinary medicine, The University
of Cambridge, and Dr. Neil Chanter of the Centre for Preventative Medicine, Animal Health Trust.

Published Genome Data

The fully annotated genome is available from the EMBL/GenBank databases with accession number FM204883.

Shotgun and assembly data from this project are available from our FTP site.

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Data Use Statement

This sequencing centre plans on publishing the completed and annotated sequences in a
peer-reviewed journal as soon as possible. Permission of the principal investigator should be
obtained before publishing analyses of the sequence/open reading frames/genes on a chromosome or
genome scale. See our data sharing policy.